Joran Liessens

Suffering from self-diagnosed multiple personality disorder, Joran has been doing improv and character work all his life. At age 5, he had his imaginary friend ; at age 12, he started imitating television characters and at age 25 he finally joined an improv school in Brussels. Since then, he has been enjoying the potentiality and sheer freedom of the “yes and”. Originally from Belgium and while normally speaking the wonderful language called “Dutch”, playing on stage in English does allow Joran to bring out his more sophisticated alter egos.

In his professional life, where he earns money to pay for improv classes, he works as a product in a Belgian scale-up with a global footprint.

Archives spectacles

In between the lines

The beginning is known, the end is written. In between, infinite possibilities.

The “In between the lines” is a narrative long-form that starts and ends with specific lines given by the audience. There is no predefined genre or colour to the stories. The audience and the performers discover it together. In this story-driven format the story unfolds in front of the (…)

How did we get there ?

Randomness unpacked, 88% guaranteed

A priest, a rabbi and an imam walk into a bar. Pretty random, right ? Or have they met before ? Were they friends in high school ? Is the rabbi vegan ? How many times has the imam watched Twilight ? Did the priest lose all his savings in the last cryptocurrency crash ? Most things in life just (…)

7/8

We are only what we mean to others

The inscriptions on a tombstone are only a summary of one’s life. The fraction of that person visible to all. Their true nature, on the other hand, is so often well hidden under the surface. ⅞ dives deeper into the complexity of people and their stories. In this improvised long-form, Falafel (…)

Pixels

We are bigger than the sum of our parts

Pixels are a small item of information, the elementary particles at the heart of all modern images. Taken individually, each pixel is just an invisible sample of an original or synthetic image. But if displayed together, pixels can provide an even more accurate representation of the original. (…)